an convenient truth

Aging dirty hippie Al Gore called into the new Bill Press show “Full Court Press” (get it?) on Current TV to point and laugh at all the stupid GOP candidates, and to say their debates are astonishingly shallow, and to aver that surely even the majority of Republicans are embarrassed by these Little Torquemadas who have managed to time travel from the 1800s before Nazis invented the PIll. (Pssst, Rick Santorum, we are pretty sure he is talking about you.) Why must Al Gore be such a pathological liar? Perhaps Rick Santorum would like to call bullshit on that!

Your Editrix may have accidentally voted for Nader (twice), and so feels she owes one or seven to Ol’ Al over there, and in fact began to really like him once he got all fat and sassy and grew that excellent Levon Helm beard. So anytime he wants to go on Bill Press or elsewhere and shit all over the GOP, she will happily link it here. That’s a promise to you, Al. A promise fer keepin’.

I think I posted this before. Winter ’71; me (6’/195Lbs) and Karl (6’3”/220Lbs) and a brand new Dreadnaught (D-?) in my 1948 MG-TC from Nazareth back to Pittsburgh. Being it was an old BritCar, it was a good thing that Martin gave Karl an extra set of strings, he was pissed – but a lot warmer and drier.

James Michael Curley

Don't invite Santorum to take a load off Fanny, Please!

Lascauxcaveman

When Chet Kincade weighs in on this thread, I get to be the one that says "Wait a minute, Chester, I'm a peaceful man."

Yes, but see, Al Gore is fat, therefore global warming is just a conspiracy to [do something vaguely sinister]!

metamarcisf

Al Green was a heck of a vice-president.

BaldarTFlagass

Levon Helm reference? Our Editrix is obviously a drunkard's dream, if I ever did see one.

Lascauxcaveman

She watches her DVD of Coal Miner's Daughter every night.

RadioStalingrad

He should have done this like TWELVE YEARS AGO!!

SorosBot

But sorry, Al; the majority in the Republican party are not embarrassed by this, because any reasonable people who may have remained were all driven out by the crazed bigoted teabagger takeover and are now independents. The lunatics are running the asylum over there these days.

MissTaken

Just think, in some parallel universe Gore got reelected in 04 and then Lieberman ran and won in 08. True, we avoided invading Iraq, but we still lost our dignity with President Droopey.

SorosBot

Aaaaah! Please don't scare us like that.

Although I imagine that in this alternate universe he won because he didn't pick the warmongering, corporate Koch-sucking, censoring old dumbass, and so didn't drive idealistic young fools (like, uh, myself) into voting Nader and helping elect Bush.

Not to beat a horse that's so dead it's already pushed up daisies eaten by another horse, but you didn't help elect Bush by voting for Nader. Katherine Harris helped elect Bush BY CHEATING.

sullivanst

Lieberman would, of course, have charged headfirst into Iran on January 20th…

Allmighty_Manos

‘Embarrassing’ ‘Shallow’. Of course that pretty much describes GOP base voters, so what do you expect?

Goonemeritus

Embarrassment is a higher order brain function hence the Republican base can only approximate it by looking confused and muttering.

Chick-Fil-Atheist™

Your Editrix may have accidentally voted for Nader

…would that be worse than voting for Bush in 2000? Talk about your instant buyer's remorse. I look at our very polar choices — not from a right-or-wrong perspective — from a "not Gore" view.

I'm serial!

SorosBot

To be fair, if she was living in California back then, that was a state that would never have gone for Bush no matter what (as was the case with Illinois, where I lived at the time) and so voting for Bush by way of Nader wouldn't have actually mattered. Now for people in states like Florida or Ohio the situation was a bit different.

Chick-Fil-Atheist™

To be altruistic, I still think that my one little lonely vote matters in this big election reality-ism thingie. Damn the electoral college, and the "Monty Hall Paradox" it still seems to feel like… because my vote counts, goddammit.

So you just don't know how much pain I still feel from voting for Chimpy.

It really wasn't any different in Florida or Ohio because Katherine Harris and Ken Blackwell already knew the result before anyone actually voted.

IncenseDebate

Al grew a pair of balls.

elviouslyqueer

Shorter Al Gore: Sack up, motherfuckers. Sack. Up.

SayItWithWookies

Al Gore had a bunch of great, progressive, forward-thinking ideas — and he hid them all and tried to run like a Tennessee biddy and cold warrior who never had anything to do with Bill Clinton for the previous eight years. And if you're talking embarrassing, there's a particular on-stage smooch I'm still trying to forget about.

Cavorting with the DLC New Democrat fuckstick shitbag motherfucker Bill Clinton who gave us NAFTA and GLB and Goldman Sachs is the only blot on Al Gore's escutcheon and he was wise to pretend he didn't know Clinton, the man who destroyed the democratic party, and the US industrial base, and turned the country over to the finance industry. fuck him, Bill Clinton, and Cankles McSwampsow, his wife.

Negropolis

You done gone an lost your damned mine. That's a grossly revisionist history about who initiate what during the 90's.

Come here a minute

Al, they're still not as bad as George W. Bush. Think about it.

flamingpdog

Give 'em time, give 'em time, my son.

No, wait, DON'T, DON'T!!!!

SayItWithWookies

They look a lot more harmless before you give 'em the keys — after that though, it's bomb Iran, burn the encyclopedia and nonstop prayer breakfasts.

Naked_Bunny

Their campaigns may not be as bad as Bush actually was, but their campaigns are a lot more extremist than Bush's 2000 campaign was. So just imagine what happens if they get into the Oval Office and can stop pretending to be so "moderate".

Not_So_Much

Will Frothy's rejoinder ignore the topic and focus on;

a) the size of Al's house
b) jettin' about on private polute-y jets or
c) inventing the interwebz?

elviouslyqueer

All of them, Tipper.

chicken_thief

Frothy will reluctantly concede that he would be willing to be Al's veep if selected. Anything to help the nation. And get himself closer to the Oval Office.

Callyson

Your Editrix…in fact began to really like him once he got all fat and sassy and grew that excellent Levon Helm beard.
Well, he's available now, if you dig older dudes…

ttommyunger

Older, fat, boring dudes.

DaRooster

What does the ManBearPig have to say about this?

BaldarTFlagass

Oh, like the GOP candidates had a lot of "depth" in '00, '04, and '08?

AnAmericanInTO

I'm reading Stephen King's latest brick, 11/22/63, about a time traveler trying to prevent the Kennedy assassination and man does it ever make me want to do my own little bit of traveling back to 2000 and make sure Gore makes it in the White House. There's such a domino effect that resulted from the one event, that I get depressed all over again every time I think about it.

PuckStopsHere

Wait till you get to the end of 11/22/63 and get back to us then, k? No spoiler alerts, but I'm jess sayin…

Plus kudos to him for rescuing Laurie David from a sexless marriage, even if it means having to hear all the time about not leaving his charger plugged into the wall. That must be fucking grating after a while, no matter how buff she must be from the spa.

Is "Current TV" that shitty channel between A&E and Spike TV that no one ever watches?

WhatTheHolyHeck

Not any more, now that The Rotten Tomatoes Show is off the air. Oh, Ellen, how I miss your saucy bob.

flamingpdog

My oldest son and I went to see Al on stage a few years ago when he was on tour pimping his second global warmification flic. I must say the guy had definitely removed the stick that had been up his ass previously. Much more relaxed and even funny.*

I think there's probably a bumper sticker somewhere we could get that says "BLAME ME…I VOTED FOR NADER."

bagofmice

Goddammit, this thread hit the 50 comment limit for auto expansions for replies. It's not like a greater threshold will generate more adviews because it's an ajax thing, the comment expansion.Seriously, while post activity has exploded, so has commentator activity, so a threshold of 50 for collapsing threads is far too low.

Biff

It does make it more difficult to fap to read on my Android.

SheriffJoeBiden

I might agree with this if I knew what the heck you were talking about.

Naked_Bunny

Don't even get me started on trying to follow nested replies.

ThundercatHo

Al forgot "murky, fetid and mosquito-infested".

prommie

Our editrix better not have voted for Nader in Florida, for if she did, she has blood on her hands.

Steverino247

I would have to agree with that comment. Also, bones, brains, burn scars and a helluva lot of pain medications.

Naked_Bunny

“Full Court Press” (get it?)

He hangs around the king and queen?

Geminisunmars

In the Republican Party the shallow runs pretty deep.

An_Outhouse

How many trees had to die to produce the elctricity to broadcast that segment of Current TV?

How much did Gore's bank account expand in just thhe couple of minutes he spent talking to Bill Press?

Biff

I would watch/listen to Bill Press if his show wasn't on at such an obscenely early hour.

SheriffJoeBiden

Al Gore thinks the GOP sucks. Huh. In other news, farts are stinky!

An_Outhouse

not mine

An_Outhouse

Don't sweat the guilt , Editrix. More Democrats voted for Bush in Fla than anybody voted for the Green.

Sorry Becca, but "accidentally" voting for Nader (twice) is like "accidentally" banging your best friend's girlfriend (twice, also too).

WiscDad

Just remember folks….If ol' Al hadn't invented the internet…we wouldn't be here today. Although there are probably more kids splashed all over keyboards than have been aborted in the last 30 years.

CthuNHu

And New Hampshire.

ttommyunger

I'm no smarter or better than anyfuckingbody. I've made monumental mistakes and made most of them on purpose, some with the worst of intentions. I've made a couple of bad choices with my vote: voted for Goldwater-thinking a crazy honest President would be better than a smart crooked one. Voted for George Wallace in the Georgia Primary for the same reason. There, I've admitted it. It wasn't easy. I'm not proud of it, but I have to tell you, if I'd been shit-silly enough to throw away a perfectly good vote on Nader, thereby helping in some small way to usher in that murderous cretin, Dubya; leading America into the most disastrous eight years in history….Don't think I'd admit that-to anybody, ever. Puts you in Bill Maher's league; and although he has lots of good points, he too voted for Nader, admits it; and I think he fucked Ann Coulter and admits that, too (shudders uncontrollably).

SorosBot

As I stated elsewhere, I was in Illinois and would not have done so in a competitive state, in my self-defense. And I was only 24 and foolish.

Don't judge me!

doloras

"that murderous cretin, Dubya; leading America into the most disastrous eight years in history"…